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"True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself."
"Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’"
"When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot."
"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
"Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy."
"Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations."
"To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better."
"The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions."
"Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way."
"If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way."
"When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself."
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
"The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?""
"Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is."
"We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way."
"Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine."
"We are all born crazy. Some remain that way."
"Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human."
"There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it."
"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
